Re: Indo-European question

Patrick Dunn wrote:
> Is there an PIE paradigm somewhere on the web, by any chance?
Perhaps.  But, I don't know of any site.  However, my "The World's Major
Languages" gives the following as one reconstruction of the PIE noun
paradigm (according to Szemerényi, 1980):

    Sing            Dual       Plural
Nom -s, 0           -e, -î/-i  -es
Voc 0               -e, -î/-i  -es
Acc -m/-m=          -e, -î/-i  -ns/-n=s
Gen -es/-os/-s      -ous? -ôs? -om/-ôm
Abl -es/-os/-s;     -bhyô, -mô -bh(y)os, -mos
    -ed/-od
Dat -ei             -bhyô, -mô -bh(y)os, -mos
Loc -i              -ou        -su
Ins -e/-o, -bhi/-mi -bhyô, -mô -bhis/-mis, -ôis
Copied exactly, except that macrons are rendered with circumflexes, and
= should be a circle under the letter.

And goes on to say: "These endings represent a composite set of
possibilities for the Proto-Indo-European noun; no single form reflects
them all."

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